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POLICE
DEPARTMENT
MEMO
TO: Mayor Paul Hicks
Hastings City Council Members
FROM: Mike McMenomy, Chief
DATE: February 26, 2009
SUBJECT: Consent Agenda item - Acceptance of Grant Funds
In December of 2008 1 had applied for grant funds made available from the Metropolitan
Emergency Services Board who had state wide grant funds available for the purchase of
radio equipment with the statewide 800 MHZ Radio system transition. I had requested the
funds to purchase handheld radio equipment for use by members of our Police Reserve
unit. In the 2009 budget I had also requested funds to begin purchasing some handheld
radios for Reserve members and then in the 2010 and 2011 budget we were going to again
request funds to purchase more hand held radios for Reserve members with the goal of
having all of this equipment purchased in the next 2 to 3 years for Reserve unit members.
Last week I was notified by the Metropolitan Emergency Services Board that we were
receiving grant funds in the amount of $ 27,984.91 for the purchase of these handheld
radio units for our Reserve members. The city must provide a 20% match of these funds
which is $ 6,996.23 and I am pleased to inform you the matching funds are already in the
previously mentioned 2009 budget so this will not require any budget adjustment approval
for the 2009 budget. These grant funds and city matching funds should allow us to get all
of the hand held radio equipment at one time for Reserve unit members and eliminate and
help the 2010 and 2011 budget process requests as we should not have the need for that
type of radio equipment request. This memo is to inform you of this and request approval
from council to accept this grant award. Thank You.